Women in STEM advent calendar: Day 18 – Sutayta Al-Mahāmali

This winter, we are celebrating the festive season by honouring 25 amazing women in STEM, some of which you might not know of!

Sutayta Al-Mahāmali

Algebraist and legal scholarDied 987 CEIraq

Born in Baghdad, Sutayta Al-Mahāmali’s knowledge of Islamic jurisprudence informed her mathematics, and she became an authority on the algebraic inheritance formula which defined how much of an estate each heir received. She made original contributions to algebra and arithmetic which impressed later mathematicians and historians, but have now been lost to time.

ALD 2009's Pledge

"I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same."
— Suw Charman-Anderson

Tuesday 8 October 2019 is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths.

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